But how will I find my Russian bot news websites now?! How dare they make me use a legitimate news source instead of finding whatever random “news” website spouted the same nonsense I search in google. /s
I think this will be a good thing in the long run to be honest
Greedy google doing greedy google things.
Are you presuming that it never becomes popular? All three aspects vaguely describe the intermediary as being more popular than the news operator. If lemmy takes off and becomes the next Reddit and people go to it to catch up on the latest news it would be a factor.
Just because it does not fit today does not mean it isn’t a bad law. It would essentially apply to ANY site that becomes popular and links to a canadian news outlet.
F*ck these bozos who dont understand how much this is going to screw canadian news sites. They just see google gets owned and support whatever tf it is like sheep. Awful law
I am amazed at how people don’t understand that vague law that takes out there “Current enemy” could be used against them down the road… THERE IS NO SUPPORT OF GOOGLE or facebook… it is a bad law that could be turned around to start playing whack mole with lemmy instances in the future, especially those run by a Canadian entity or on canadian hosting.
You mean I won’t get ads news from Google anymore? Aww, shucks!
Use DuckDuckGo #BoycottGoogle
Google’s threatening to “go on strike” to ratchet up the pressure.
And it will work. It doesn’t hurt them much, but it’s devastating to the media companies because most of their traffic comes from Meta and Google.
If Jane Doe searches for “wildfires” and would have seen a story by the Toronto Star in her search results, she might have clicked it. If Google stops linking to the Star and instead now just links to a YouTube video of the wildfires, or a blog from someone nearby, Jane might click there instead. Since Google gets ad money from those sources too, it has zero effect on their bottom line, but destroys the traffic to the Star.
It’s why this “link tax” scheme failed in Germany, it failed in Australia, it’s failed everywhere that it’s been tried, since it’s a stupid idea.
